Ex Machina: The End Is the Beginning

Ex Machina is an ode to the infantile fantasies of men everywhere, who are unable to imagine themselves in a mature relationship with a mature living woman. It is part of a genre, of which Fifty Shades of Grey is another example. Ever since Hugh Hefner made nude photographs respectable with Playboy, we have been cultivating the objectification of women. This is the Shadow side of men’s psyches, which imagines that it does not need to share life with a real woman.